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Picture from the "Book of the Dead". One of the two figures with an orange disk is Re-Harakhti, the other may be Re. The other two figures are pharaohs.
Click on image for full size Image courtesy James Wasserman, The Egyptian Book of the Dead, Chronicle Books.

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